The Tiny and the Fragmented: Miniature, Broken, or Otherwise Incomplete Objects in the Ancient World

The Tiny and the Fragmented demands a reconsideration of the social and contextual nature of miniaturization, fragmentation, and incompleteness, making the case that it was because of, rather than in spite of, their small or partial state that these objects were valued parts of the personal and social worlds they inhabited.

S. Rebecca Martin is Associate Professor of Greek Art and Architecture in the Department of History & Architecture and Associate Professor in the Archaeology Program at Boston University. She is the author of The Art of Contact Comparative Approaches to Greek and Phoenician Art (2017).

Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper is Assistant Professor and Karl Kilinski II Endowed Chair in Hellenic Visual Culture Department of Art History at Southern Methodist University. Her research focuses on issues of miniaturization, identity, and cross-cultural interaction in the terracotta figurines of Hellenistic Babylonia.